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Monthly Archives: August 2018

Searching is a timely film, for that there is no question. But, I would argue that a more apt descriptor for the online-only thriller starring John Cho is electric. Well, that and wildly inventive and an absolute cure for summer blockbuster fatigue. David Kim (Cho) experiences every parent’s nightmare when […]

Searching Review: John Cho Triumphs in Revolutionary Thriller

August 31, 2018 in Movie Reviews tagged John Cho / Movie Reviews / Searching by joeldamos

The first trailer for The Front Runner, featuring Hugh Jackman as presidential candidate Gary Hart, has landed and it’s everything you’d expect and so much more. Hart was a senator from Colorado. After challenging former Vice President Walter Mondale in the 1984 Democratic Primaries, and almost pulling it off an unlikely […]

The Front Runner Trailer: Hugh Jackman is Gary Hart

August 30, 2018 in Movie Trailers tagged Hugh Jackman / Movie Trailers / The Front Runner by joeldamos

The capturing of the Nazi architect of Germany’s “Final Solution,” Adolph Eichmann, by Israeli forces should be a riveting, catch-your-breath cinematic journey. Largely, it is… but Operation Finale achieves that in the most unexpected of ways. What director Chris Weitz delivers—from Matthew Orton’s screenplay—is deliberate in every way. Those who […]

Operation Finale Review: Justice Served

August 30, 2018 in Movie Reviews tagged Ben Kingsley / Movie Reviews / Operation Finale / Oscar Isaac by joeldamos

The first trailer for First Man gave us the scope and feel of filmmaker Damien Chazelle’s (La La Land and Whiplash) take on the historic and heroic effort to put a man on the Moon. The second teaser for the epic film—starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong—ratchets up the riveting […]

First Man Trailer Teases Epic Moon Landing: Riveting & Raw

August 29, 2018 in Movie Trailers tagged First Man / Movie Trailers / Ryan Gosling by joeldamos

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire,” Ben Kingsley’s Itzhak Stern says in the timeless masterpiece from Steven Spielberg—that is sadly, given today’s headlines, quite timely. To mark the 25th anniversary of the release of Schindler’s List, what I believe to be Steven Spielberg’s greatest achievement, a new trailer […]

Schindler’s List 25th Anniversary Release Trailer: Now, More Than Ever

August 29, 2018 in Movie Trailers tagged Movie Trailers / Schindler's List / Steven Spielberg by joeldamos

Drew Goddard wowed us as a writer-director with The Cabin in the Woods. His screenwriting skills are uncanny—from The Martian to World War Z. He has a wildly inventive tone and tenor and Goddard is back as writer-director with the wildly inventive-looking Bad Times at the El Royale. The story […]

Bad Times at the El Royale Trailer: What Side Are ...

August 28, 2018 in Movie Trailers tagged Bad Times at the El Royale / Chris Hemsworth / Jeff Bridges / Jon Hamm / Movie Trailers by joeldamos

Rowan Atkinson is back for his third turn as Johnny English in Johnny English Returns,and if the latest trailer is any indication, he might not be doing his best for Queen and country, but he sure does make us laugh. Atkinson returns as one of her majesty’s secret services’ … […]

Johnny English Returns Trailer: UK’s “Best” Spy is Back!

August 28, 2018 in Movie Trailers tagged Johnny English Returns / Movie Trailers by joeldamos

The movie Book Club (debuting on DVD, Blu-Ray on 8/28, out now on digital formats) had some fascinating origins, as we discovered in our exclusive interview with writers Bill Holderman (who also directed) and Erin Simms. Seems Holderman, who also directed the movie starring four titanic legends—Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, […]

Book Club Creators Exclusive Q&A: How an “Inappropriate Gift” Led ...

August 24, 2018 in Interviews tagged Book Club / Exclusives / interviews by joeldamos

The idea of melding puppets and raunchy, R-rated humor is not necessarily new. But, in the Melissa McCarthy starring The Happytime Murders, at least the concept tries to do something different. This is a world where puppets and humans live side by side and from what we see in the […]

The Happytime Murders Review: Happy Happy, Meh, Meh

August 24, 2018 in Movie Reviews tagged Melissa McCarthy / Movie Reviews / The Happytime Murders by joeldamos